Dr Karin Bottom

Contact details

Institute of Local Government StudiesSchool of Government and SocietyMuirhead TowerUniversity of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Karin Bottom directs INLOGOV's MSc in Public Management and lectures on modules concerned with 1) party politics; democracy and public management; 2) research methods.

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Qualifications

PhD in Government, University of Manchester (2007)

MA, Parties and Elections, Keele (2001)

BSc in Politics & Psychology, Keele (2000)

Biography

Dr Karin Bottom is a political scientist and has worked at INLOGOV since February 2007.

Teaching

Participation and Democracy (Graduate INLOGOV)

Making Policy (Graduate, INLOGOV)

Public Policy Research Methods (Graduate, INLOGOV)

Social Research Methods 1 (Graduate, College of Social Sciences)

Questionnaire Design (Graduate, College of Social Science)

Postgraduate supervision

Karin welcomes the opportunity to supervise in areas relating to parties (particularly small parties); party systems; elections; democracy; poltics outside the mainstream; British and comparative politics; multilevel governance

Current

Abena Dadze Arthur. 'Made in the West adapted by the East – institutionalizing customer-centric public services in Abu Dhabi'.

Tania Garcia Chavez. Decentralisation as a strategy for building trust between police and citizens: a comparative analysis of Mexico, UK and Germany (with John Raine INLOGOV). Pass No Corrections.

Research

Research interests

Broadly speaking, Dr Bottom's research focuses on various aspects of parties and party systems. Her work adopts a multilevel perspective that is particularly interested in the changing roles and responsibilities of political parties.

Clark, A. Bottom, K. and Copus, C. (2008) 'More similar than they would like to admit? Contemporary political ideologies and the rise of the British National Party and Respect in Britain', British Politics, 3, (4): 511-534.

Chapters in edited books

Bottom, K. Copus, C. (2011) 'The BNP in local government: Support for the far-right or for community politics?', N. Copsey and G. Macklin (eds.) New Perspectives on the BNP, Routledge.

Clark A. Colin Copus, C. and Bottom, K. (2008) 'Multi-party politics in England: small parties, independents, and political associations in English local politics', M. Reiser, E. Holtmann, Farewell to the party model? Independent local lists in east and west European countries, London Manchester: Urban and Regional Research International, 11, series editors, H. Wollmann, H. Baldersheim, P. John, 553-276.